Card-case.



Pateh ted Feb. 27, I900.

A. L. ROSENTHAL.

CARD CASE.

' (Application filed July 5, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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fizvnior. fiMaJm ABRAHAM L. ROSENTHAL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CARD-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters IPatent No. 644,148, dated February 27, 1900.

Application filed July 5,1899. Serial No. 722,811 Nomodel.

T0 0. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM L. RosEN- THAL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Card-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cases or holding devices for cards and the like, and has for its object to provide a new and improved device for this purpose.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a plan view of one form of device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 2, showing the case full of cards or other devices. Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 1 when open. Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig. 4, showing one way of placing the cards in position. Fig. 6 is a View showing one form of clasp used in connection with my device.

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several figures.

I have illustrated my device in the drawings made up in a form particularly adapted for a card-case.

Referring now to the drawings,l have shown a construction consisting of a flexible back made up of two parts A and B, hinged together in any desired way, so that they may be folded one upon the other, as shown in Fig. 2, thus forming a cover or case. Contained within the case is a suitable elastic clasp C. This clasp, as illustrated in the drawings, consists of a piece of spring metal bent back upon itself, as illustrated, and attached to the part B. The clasp is bent so that its rear portion C conforms to the back part or hinge A of the case, and thus fits neatly into place and permits the two parts of the case to be opened and closed without being in any manner obstructed. This clasp also accommodates itself to the various number of cards or other devices in the case. This clasp is also preferably cut away, as shown at 0*, Fig. 6, thus forming two springbows, as shown, and is preferably fixed to the case. It may, however, be removably attached thereto,as shown in Fig. 3, by forming the part B with a pocket to receive the flattened end 0 of the clasp. The cards or other devices are held in position by the clasp and may be removed one at a time by pulling them outwardly, as shown in Fig. 4. The cards or other devices may be placed in position by slipping them in at the side of the clasp, as shown in Fig. 5. In card-cases as heretofore constructed it has been the practice to have the cards removable by perfoing them in position by glue or the like. These constructions have many defects which are obviated by the construction herein shown, for with this construction the cards are removably held in place by the clasp and can be inserted or withdrawn at will.

The device is so constructed as to be compact and neat and may thus be carried in the pocket without any inconvenience.

I have used the term cards in the description and claims; but I do not limit myself to any technical meaning this word may have, as I use it to include all equivalent devices.

I claim 1. A card case, comprising two flexible parts hinged together so as to form two opposed covers, the cards being received upon the inner face of one of said covers, a springclasp between said covers consisting of a single piece of spring metal bent back upon itself so as to have two opposed parts, a pocket formed in the cover which receives the cards and into which one end of the clasp is removably received, the other end of said clasp being free, said pocketlocated beneath the cardsupporting face of the cover so that the cards can be held in position without being bent out of alinement, the upper side of the pocket forming part of the face of the cover upon which the cards are received, the entire face being substantially flat, the free end of the clasp being opposed to the face of the upper part of the pocket, substantially as described.

2. A pocket card-case, comprising two covers suitably hinged together, one of said covers having a fiat even inner face upon which the cards are supported, an adjustable springclasp formed from a single piece of metal bent back upon itself so as to form two opposed parts with a variable card-receiving space between them, said clasp attached to the cover upon which the cards are supported, the atrating them and tearing them off or attachcached part of the spring being located below the inner face of the cover upon which the cards are supported so as not to interrupt the even face thereof when the cards are in position, so that the cards can be inserted in the card-receiving space between the two parts of the clasp without being bent out of alinement, the two opposed parts of the clasp being elastically pressed toward each other, so that the insertion or withdrawal of the cards of itself varies the distance between them.

3. A pocket card-case, comprising two covers suitably hinged together, one of said covers provided with a flat even surface upon which the cards are supported, a pocket or recess between the card-supporting face of said cover and the back thereof, a clasp havin g a rigid part adapted to be insertedin said insertion or withdrawal of the cards of itself 30 varies the distance between them.

ABRAHAM L. ROSENTI-IAL.

\Vitnesses:

DONALD M. CARTER, HOMER L. KRAFT. 

